Amidst news of the prolonged worldwide recession, new air strikes, secession attempts, and climate change, international trade — which in 2008 went through its largest crisis in history — has been mostly out of the public eye.
The Green Party is calling for Canadians to demand accountability from the government and business community for human rights abuses in nations that trade with Canada.
The maritime industry is without a doubt the major freight transportation vehicle for international trade since time immemorial. It still transports almost 90 percent of all of the world’s raw and manufactured products around the globe.
Trade and economic tensions between China’s communist regime and the United States have crescendoed to new heights, serving as a precarious backdrop for this week’s visit by China’s Vice Chairman Xi Jinping to Washington.
For the first time since its existence, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) published an inspection report. Although more than two years old, this inspection report covers more than a five-year period of one of the Big Four Accounting firms, in this case, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (D&T).
Customers shop for washers and dryers Oct. 27 in Burbank, Calif. Spending on durable goods and cars helped boost third-quarter Gross DomesticPproduct (GDP).
Oil sands, the source of oil for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, took another hit to its image this week when the European Commission proposed that oil derived from the sands should be declared a quarter more carbon dioxide-polluting than crude oil.
Breaking into the Chinese market is riddled with challenges like in no other market. U.S. businesses are flocking to China in pursuit of rising earnings, only thinking that it is one of the largest markets worldwide.